Chapter 597: The stragglers are unstoppable
"General Ma, the enemy has already crossed the Yangtze River, you still have the leisure to bask in the sun here!" Yu Yunwen stepped forward and asked.
When the man heard the voice, he turned his head, opened his eyes and glanced at Yu Yunwen, who was dressed in a red official robe, and said, "What does the enemy have to do with me crossing the river." ”
After speaking, he closed his eyes, turned his head, and continued to bask in the sun, without the slightest intention of getting up and saluting.
"You are a soldier, the Great Song Dynasty wants you to guard, the enemy has come, the general will not go out of the city to kill the enemy, Taiping City will be lost!" Yu Yunwen said urgently.
"Da Song Jiangshan belongs to your official master, what does it have to do with us rough people, you can lose it if you want, I don't care. Besides, this Taiping City, the official master has long been gone, and the enemy will come if he wants to, and stop them from doing anything. The man closed his eyes and replied.
This is a talent who can fight, and when this is in danger, Yu Yunwen will not give up easily.
So he immediately moved with affection, knew it with reason, and only listened to him: "How can the Great Song Jiangshan be those cowardly scum, it is where all of us live!" Don't our wives, children, brothers and sisters all live in this land? If the enemy is allowed to ride into the city and wreak havoc on the south of the Yangtze River, what will happen to the old and weak women and children in our family? Do you let your enemies bully? If the general does not rise up at this time, will he sit back and watch them be bullied? We are desperate to live, not just for our loved ones! ”
As soon as the man heard this, he immediately turned over, clasped his fists at Yu Yunwen and saluted: "What the adult said is reasonable, but the villain is wrong!" ”
Yu Yunwen immediately replied: "General Ma is reasonable, and he is a rare general in the Great Song Dynasty!" On behalf of the imperial court, this official appoints you as the commander of the peace, and immediately leads the troops out of the city to resist the enemy! ”
"Order!"
After receiving the order, the horse commander immediately leaned down and picked up two large axes from the straw pile.
Then he raised his axe and shouted: "Brothers, follow me out of the city to kill the enemy!" ”
After shouting, he rushed out of the courtyard with two large axes.
The stragglers who were sitting and lying down in the courtyard picked up their weapons one after another, followed his footsteps, and rushed out.
Commander Ma carried a big axe and shouted all the way out of the city: "The enemy is coming, follow me out of the city to kill the enemy!" ”
The starving stragglers, who did not have much strength, saw that someone was holding a weapon and threatening to go out of the city to kill the enemy, and they followed as if they were in the excitement.
When they arrived outside the city gate, behind the commander of the horse, there were already hundreds of people following.
Less than three miles out of the city, I saw hundreds of Song troops retreating in defeat, and the enemy army was in hot pursuit.
Seeing this, the horse commander roared, and rushed into the enemy formation with two big axes, and the big axes flew up and down, left and right, and five or six people died in an instant.
The enemy fought and pursued for several miles all the way, even if it was an elite, it was already physically exhausted, and when they saw the ruthless man appear, they broke into the formation, it was difficult to resist, and they stopped the pursuit one after another.
With the strength of one person, the horse commander stabilized the front in an instant!
"Rush!"
"Kill!"
At the sound of shouting, the hundreds of people who followed the horse commander out of the city immediately rushed forward, raised their swords and guns, and fought with the pursuing enemy army.
After a long battle, where could the enemy army, which lacked physical strength, withstand the fierce attack of these three or four hundred people, not only leaving behind corpses, but also retreating one after another.
Seeing that the situation of the battle was reversed, the Song army of the ferry, which was chased and defeated, reflexively threw itself into battle.
The enemy, who was no longer superior in strength and physical strength, did not know how many reinforcements the other side had, so they quickly retreated in the direction of the ferry.
The Song army gained power, where would they easily slip away, and take this opportunity to chase and fight.
In less than half an hour, they chased to a place less than a mile away from the ferry, joined forces with the left and right armies of the ferry, which were difficult to support, and fell into a melee with thousands of enemy troops.
The entire front was maintained near the ferry, and the two sides came and went, entangled endlessly.
After gathering some reinforcements in the city, Yu Yunwen returned to the hill near the ferry to watch the battle.
He soon discovered that although the Song army had a certain advantage in numbers, it had no advantage in battle, and even in the melee between the two sides, it was still at a disadvantage.
As soon as I thought that the soldiers of the Song army were hungry and fighting, they instantly understood the problem, they couldn't win the battle because their physical strength couldn't keep up, and they had exhausted the little physical strength they had from the city all the way to the ferry.
There are no enemy ships at the ferry, and there are no reinforcements from the enemy troops on the shore, and both sides are now desperately holding on, and whoever gets tired first will lose.
Fight to the end, fight is perseverance!
Without reinforcements, whoever wins or loses is possible.
However, when Yu Yunwen turned his gaze back to the river, his face changed instantly, because dense black spots appeared in the river, and if you looked closely, there were no less than hundreds of boats!
The enemy's reinforcements have arrived, or should it be said that the enemy's real river-crossing troops are coming!
The more than 1,000 people who crossed the river in the past were only the vanguard of the enemy to seize the crossing, and now they are the main force crossing the river.
There are no reinforcements at Taiping Ferry, those who can get out of the city have already come out, and those who are still in the city are those who will not leave the city if they are killed, whether Jiankang will send troops to support, Yu Yunwen does not know, besides, the two places are separated by hundreds of miles, even if there are reinforcements, it will be three or four days later, and by then Taiping Prefecture has fallen into the hands of the enemy.
Looking at the Song army, which was gradually defeated, and then at the enemy reinforcements that were rapidly approaching in the middle of the river, Yu Yunwen was desperate.
"My lord, let's send you back to Jiankang, the peace can't be kept!" The guards of the forbidden army were condescending, and they had already seen the situation clearly, and it would not take more than two quarters of an hour for the enemy reinforcements to appear in the Song army's field of vision, that is, when they were defeated and fled.
Yu Yunwen didn't speak, he desperately wanted to win the battle, but the ship in Taiping Prefecture was already rotten and full of holes, and he couldn't even find anything to block the holes.
The enemy's main force is about to cross the river, is the Great Song Dynasty going to die like this?
The matter has come to this point, it doesn't matter if you go or not, if you leave from the Taiping Ferry today, will you be able to survive under the enemy's iron hooves tomorrow?
Yu Yunwen doesn't think he can survive, even if he survives today, he will only be stealing his life in the future, rather than this, it is better to die in Taiping, for Taiping, for the Great Song Dynasty to be buried!
I hope that in the next life, there will be true peace!
Yu Yunwen looked at the enemy ships that were rapidly approaching and were already very clear, and suddenly said decisively: "I'm not leaving, you go back to Jiankang and tell Lord Ye that today I, Yu Yunwen, will be martyred for Taiping with the soldiers at Taiping Ferry, and ask Lord Ye to tell the court, you don't have to collect the body for me, I will turn into dirt and keep the peace forever!" ”
"My lord! Why bother? "The Praetorian guards are in a hurry.
"Don't persuade me, you guys go, let Lord Ye prepare early, don't lose Jiankang easily!" Yu Yunwen has a firm attitude.
"My lord, it's too late if you don't leave! The enemy ship was only more than ten feet away from the river bank! "The guards of the forbidden army are about to cry, they are ordered to guard the court officials, if the court officials die, they run back alive, what is this? The condemnation is light, and perhaps the death penalty is forthright.
"Jiankang hasn't been lost yet, keep Jiankang, the Great Song Dynasty still has the strength to fight, you go and deliver the news quickly, leave me alone." Go! Yu Yunwen said angrily, and after speaking, he threw them a portable token.
The civil officials were pedantic, and when the three forbidden soldiers saw this, they didn't dare to persuade them anymore, so they could only accept the token.
"Take care, my lord!"
The three of them clasped their fists, gave a deep salute, and hurried down the mountain.
Yu Yunwen looked at the enemy ships that were getting closer and closer, and then looked at the Song army that was retreating, the river wind blew, infinitely sad.
He stretched out his hand to straighten the belt of his official clothes, and put on his official hat straight, even if he died, he would be upright and decent.
When the enemy's first ship docked, dozens of enemy soldiers climbed off the boat, screaming and running towards the fighting enemy, and the situation of the melee between the enemy and us was instantly reversed.
There were no reinforcements, hungry, and exhausted, the Song army was desperate, even if they wanted to run, they didn't have the extra strength, and they fought until now, confused, and it was all instinct.
Hearing the arrival of enemy reinforcements, they knew that they could not escape, and they could only die.
"Brothers, this battle cannot be won, even if we want to die here, we must pull the enemy back, and we must not go back! Kill! ”
The horse commander was covered in blood, and the big axe wheeled in both hands was a little weak, and the speed of attacking and blocking was getting slower and slower, and he couldn't withstand it for long.
Since leaving the city, he has lost count of how many enemies he has killed, and the only thought in his mind now is to kill one more.
The brothers who went out of the city with him, there were not many people left, they fought for a long time, and now they didn't even have the strength to wield knives and spears, and when they spoke, they couldn't raise the slightest strength, and they kept their mouths shut just to save their last breath, and as soon as they let out this mouth, they would probably fall to the ground immediately.
What supported their exhausted bodies to fight until this time, they didn't have time to think, and they couldn't think clearly, some were just the instinct to hack the enemy to death.
As soon as the enemy reinforcements arrived, their last moment would come, but it was impossible to run when they had fought to such an extent, because they no longer had the strength and energy to think, and all their actions were driven by swords and guns.
Hundreds of enemy reinforcements quickly rushed to the vicinity of the wargroup and joined the chaotic warband.
Because the enemy's vanguard has exhausted too much energy after a long battle, and its mind has no longer obeyed the call, it is all up to the knife in their hand, and no matter who approaches, their knife will parry it.
The hundreds of enemy troops who came in for reinforcements could not pass through the periphery of the battle situation and penetrate deep into the center of the battle group, while the embankment of the Song army had no track to be found, and the swords and guns of the indiscriminate attack were also injured by their own people.
The hundreds of reinforcements who arrived first did not immediately achieve superior results, but Yu Yunwen, who was standing on the top of the mountain, could see clearly that the Song army, which was still resisting stubbornly, could not support it for long, and it would not exceed the effort of a cup of tea.
At the same time, ships laden with enemy troops were docking one after another.
Today's Taiping Ferry is lost, and the Great Song Dynasty is going to die!
Yu Yunwen was helpless and burst into tears.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, ships with apricot yellow flags appeared, and in surprise, he fixed his eyes and saw that they were swimming against the current and were rushing straight towards the enemy ships!
Immediately turned his head and shouted to the bottom of the mountain: "The Great Song reinforcements have arrived!" ”